Joseph Dennie and The Farmer's Weekly Museum: Readership and Pseudonymous Celebrity in Early National Journalism

• Published in: American nineteenth century history Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 67 - 87
• Main Author: Lafferty, Ben Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.01.2014
• Subjects: Federalist; Households; Joseph Dennie; Journalism; Morality; Museums; New Hampshire; Publishing Industry

The early national period witnessed an explosion in newspaper journalism in terms of both the quantity of publications produced and their geographic reach. This essay examines these issues through the case of an editor, Joseph Dennie, who worked in New Hampshire in the late 1790s. Dennie is an early...